EUROPE is being destroyed by the countries blocking their borders from migrants, the Greek prime minister has claimed as his country continues to struggle with the number of refugees arriving on the shores.

Migrant crisis explained in numbers

Fri, July 22, 2016

A monthly record of 218,394 migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea in October, the UN says, almost as many as the total number of arrivals in 2014. We take a look at the shocking statistics facing the humanitarian crisis.

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A summit in Brussels on Monday will discuss progress on protecting the EU's external borders and helping Greece to cope with the influx of migrants, who mostly arrive by sea from Turkey.

Ahead of the meeting Mr Tsipras has urged his European Union (EU) partners to reject unilateral measures should they reach the table.

He said: "The situation is difficult but not out of control," Tsipras said. "We have fulfilled more than 100 per cent of our commitments, whereas others have not even fulfilled 10 per cent and prefer to criticise us."

Germany, which has taken in more than a million migrants in the past year, strongly backs mandatory migrant quotas for all EU member states, but some countries, especially in former communist eastern Europe, are opposed to them.